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#8,984 All-time worldwide
#152 1998 releases

Movie profile

Be There or Be Square

1998 · 103 min · Beijing Film Studio

Comedy Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $5.9M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$2.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$3.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$660,753

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Be There or Be Square ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #8,984 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1998 releases #152 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1998. Studio / company #4 Beijing Film Studio of 10 titles Position inside the mapped Beijing Film Studio movie set. Primary genre #3,500 Comedy of 4,840 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Be There or Be Square (1998) perform at the box office?

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Be There or Be Square (1998) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $5.9M. In this database it currently ranks #8,984 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #152 among 1998 releases.

Worldwide gross
$5,899,580
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

The story of two Chinese immigrants' struggles in America. Yuan Liu has lived in LA for years. He has no stable job, no family and lives in a wagon. He seems content with his life until the day he meets Qing Li, a woman with the big "American dream".

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 25, 1998
Production
Beijing Film Studio, Beijing Forbidden City Film, Beijing Forbidden City Film Co., Ltd.
Countries
CN

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyBeijing Film Studio FranchiseFeng Xiaogang's Trilogy Of New Year's Comedies Release year chart1998 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartRomance

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1998, Be There or Be Square is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Romance title from Beijing Film Studio. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $5.9M. For comparison, it currently sits #8,984 all-time in the current chart set and #152 among 1998 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.